"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle" —Charles Dickens

"There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone." —Nicole Krauss

"Why don't you tell me that if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." —F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." —E.E. Cummings

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my ...__—Anais Nin__